Originally Posted by
aimo
Well, since you asked . . .
More stressful than it should be. I am actually a fairly low-maintenance person. All I want is a clean, safe place to stay. The hotel that we have been staying at since 1983 has been bought out by this huge hotel conglomerate nightmare. I called several times before the trip to make sure our reservations would not be affected by the buyout, including a week before. When we checked in, we were told that we were being kicked out of our gulf front room after a few days and moved to a crappy poolside room b/c of renovations- that they did not notify me about, even though I was told they would. The replacement room had adjoining doors that were not soundproofed at all and we could hear the first occupant slapping his girlfriend and smell the second ones' god-awful lunch cooking. then they covered the beautiful beach with a bunch of Tampa Bay Bucs crap, games, concert stage, CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT, etc. We could not even see the water for all the mess. This is what this company has done to the beach. And they have the nerve to try and charge 2.5 times this year's rate for next year!
We have made reservations elsewhere for next year.
And in addition to the traffic jam on the Howard Franklin on Friday, we got caught in a HUGE jam on I-40 near Garner on Saturday. Absolute nightmare. Plus, the post office did not hold our mail. And the shelling sucked this year!
I need a vacation!